Childhelp USA
Childhelp USA® is dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. It does this by focusing its efforts and resources upon treatment, prevention, and research.

Children’s Defense Fund
Concentrating on the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities, the Children’s Defense Fund stresses the importance of preventative investment in children.

Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
An association of nearly 1,000 public and private non-profit agencies, the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the largest publisher of child welfare materials including general trade books, child advocacy books, the Child Welfare journal, and the Children’s Voice magazine.

Children and the Law

Children’s Rights, Inc.
A leading litigator on behalf of abused/neglected children and kids languishing in foster care, this organization has helped prod considerable reform throughout the country by use of statewide or local class action law suits, brought with the help of local child advocates.

The Children’s Defense Fund
The Children’s Defense Fund has compiled state-by-state fact sheets on children in foster care, as an advocacy tool for programs serving vulnerable children on the state and federal levels.

Continuing Education

National CASA Conference Audio Clips
For example 1) Animal Cruelty, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence: a Toxic Triangle 2) Conflict Management 3) Facing the Methamphetamine Epidemic 4) Keys to Best Practices for Non-Native Advocates for Native Children 5) Successful Advocacy and Intervention for Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder 6) Speaking Out for Rural Children & Families 7) The Power of Education in a Child’s Life 8) Domestic Violence and the Impact on Children).

Drug and Alcohol Use for Teens

Cultural Competence Resources

CASA and Immigration Advocacy March 2017
In California, CASA volunteers, “represent the best interests of the children involved, and consider the best interests of the family.” Therefore these FAQs are written from that perspective, in order to help CASA volunteers in California advocate for children and youth affected by immigration law and policy.